Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-07-07

never hnisaed, is not at this day and neve
will be. -l.
Science has shown that there was great Ic
Age, the ploughing time of nature. preYiou
to our time of seed-sowing and harvest. AM
that man soon after became an agriculture
animal, although for many ages he existe'
in savage state and lived on flesh and berrie
and wild fruit, and knew not how TO cultivat,
the soil. Adam did not cultivate the soil, bu
his children did and gathered Aoeks. Th'
name "Adam," however, is simply generic
term for imam" in the original Hebrew, anC
in Arabic signifies "red earth" or ''clay." Il
is also shown clearly By Prof. Winchell an6
others, that the term 'son of" in the Bible
signifies ''of the tribe of, ;" and hence we can.
not say positively that our original Adam
really had sons, Cain, Abel and Seth. Be
sides, agriculture and sheep-tending were
inaugurated many years after man began
existence as savage-hundreds or thousands
of years, and hence it is not clearly proven
that Adams sons could have suddenly de.
veloped these two methods Of livelihood in
the short span of their lives. But it is use
less to discuss these questions, and we can
only refer the curious to Prof Winchell':
elaborate work on "The -Adamites," ;" and
to other similar works.
The learned Bishop Warren, of Boston, has
recently published work in which he tries
to prove that the ''Garden of Eden," or the
original paradise of Adam and Eve, was at OF
near the North Pole, where of course there
was perpetual summer as already indicated,
previous to the Great Ice Age. From this
point of vantage, our original progenitors
were driven out of paradise by the coming on
of the Glacial Epoch, never to return again;
since the change of the seasons-which was
practically and really the ''fall Of man"-he
has had to earn his bread by the sweat of his
brow, to provide for the oncoming of winter,
the heats of summer and other disagreeable
features of modern life; he has had to raise
crops suitable to his own particular climate,
since the whole earth is not now garden OF
flowers and of fruits, where perpetual sum-
mer reigns and food of all kinds grows at
hand, ready to be plucked and eaten. Man
cannot now live by his instincts alone.
DR.. Warren's theory is far more plausible
than that of Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota,
whose book on Atlantis" created such a
f1roIe in all but scientific circles, a few years
ago, in which, as lawyer, he offered a
lawyers special plea that the island Of
Atlantis, which once it is alleged existed in
midocean between America and Africa, was
the Garden of Eden and the cradle of the
human race. His dogmatic theory is about
as conclusive as that enunciated in his later
work, "Ragnarok," in which he tries to prove
that the Great Ice Age was caused by the
earth passing through the tail of comet
many million miles long, which "swished''
in this direction; that the "till" or "drift"
was simply comet-dust deposited en- passant,
and that the great heat of the comet caused
the seas to be drawn up and afterwards pre-
cipitated upon dry land to become the great
rivers with which we are now familiar; and
what is still more absurd, that the great
northern lakes were caused by the comet
dumping" against the earth and rebounding
only to strike again and dig out another lake
basin farther on! All this, of course, is pre-
posterous.
Likewise is the theory of Prof. Vail that
the soil of our earth was deposited from
above; that the earth was once surrounded by
an immense annular ring, like those sur
rounding Saturn, which, as satellite, fell
upon the earth, causing all the phenomena
which have since occurred, all Of which science
has clearly shown to have been caused by the
Great Ice Age, as heretofore explained. Next
we shall havesome pseudo o-scientist declaring
that once upon time moon, twin to our
present lunar luminary, had fallen down to
the earth and covered it up with clay to the
depth of several hundred feet, ''and great
was the fall thereof" All these theories are
advanced by pseudo-scientists, and what are
modernly called ''cranks" and are unworthy
of special credence, but are given simply for
what they are worth in the present connec-
tion. It is now our duty to consider Primi-
tive man in the light of science and history.
PRE-GIAo1Al NAN IN AMERICA.
Says Prof. G. Frederick Wright, the noted
geolegist of Oberlin: ''The first prominent
attempt to shed light upon the early history
of man from his rels+ion to the Glacial
period was made by Sir Chas. Lyell I'M his
epoch, making work upon the geological
evidences of the antiquity Of man, published
twenty three years ago. (.
In 1879, DR.. G. G. Abbott, Of Trenton, New
Jersey, began to report pal@olithic imple-
ments in the terrace gravel on the Delaware
river, near his. home. DR.. Abbott's speci-
mems, which now number many hundred,
have- with few exceptions, gone to the Pea
body Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
where anyone can see at glance, at once the
resemblance Of his collections of paleoliths
to those from the Old World and the contrast
between ,paHsolithic implenssnts and ths
ordinary Indian relies, with wFich all Ame1i-
cans aDs familiar. .....
-The gravel in which DR.. ARbott's impls-
menSs are fCand belongs to deposit ths'
was made at the close ot the Glacial Period
thus showing that man was "A America a
thsh early date. From bones found int
same deposit ii is. evident, also, that tn
nnastodon,. the bison, the GreenlanG
reindeer and walrus were contemporaries
with man in America, in contending with th'
Arcitic rigoas Of the closing part Of tn
Glacial Perssd.
sThere is no direct evidenGs of any con
.eni;on l,oArreen nva glacial man and th